economizer

[ ih-kon-uh-mahy-zer ]

noun

1. a person who economizes.
2. (in a boiler) a device for warming feed water with gases entering the chimney or stack.

economizer

/ ɪˈkɒnəˌmaɪzə /

noun

1. a device that uses the waste heat from a boiler flue to preheat the feed water
2. a person or thing that economizes

Word History and Origins

Origin of economizer¹

First recorded in 1830–40; economize + -er ¹

Example Sentences

If fuel is cheap and the engineer unskilled, a compound engine would be a poor economizer.

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It thus appears, like tobacco, to be in general an economizer of vital energy and an aid to effective nutrition.

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The economizer and the stoker gear and worm were driven by a Brotherhood three cylinder hydraulic engine.

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Nature, said Lester Ward, is a spendthrift, man an economizer.

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He was the plodder, the bookkeeper, the economizer, the man who had an eye for microscopic details.

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